Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"

• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I drove through rural Arkansas at sundown once. I’ve never seen so many deer in my life.

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  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same in northern Michigan in mid summer. And most of New England as well.

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    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I grew up in upstate NY so I’m no stranger to deer. This was something else. We were driving through the Winding Staircase mountain and there were hundreds of them. My wife kept screaming and grabbing my arm while I was driving until I had to stop in the middle of the (empty except for us and the deer) road to calmly explain that she was making the situation significantly worse.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same in Kansas. Was in a car that hit one in the 80s and see them often enough that I had to avoid one that was crossing a busy interstste highway last week.

  Deer are the opposite of an edge case in the majority of the US.

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  • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s no different in Southern Ontario where I live. Saw a semi truck plow into one, it really wasn’t pretty. Another left a huge dent on my mom’s car when she hit one driving at night.

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  • Granite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, hit one just south of Lyndon at night.

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  • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances…

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not taking that for granted. If it can’t tell a solid object os in the road, I would guess that would be true for a human that is balled up or facing away as well.

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